The
FDA, emboldened by its transformation into a drug
company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of interfering with
business and intentionally eliminating various dietary supplement companies
from the market. The FDA announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under
the guise of a final rule for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices
(CGMPs). Within this 800
page rule the FDA states, �We find that this final rule will have
a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities....
Establishments with above average costs, and even establishments with
average costs, could be hard pressed to continue to operate. Some of these
may decide it is too costly and either change product lines or go out
of business.... 140 very small [less than 20 employees] and 32 small dietary
supplement manufacturers [less than 500 employees] will be at risk of
going out of business.... costs per establishment are proportionally higher
for very small than for large establishments....The regulatory costs of
this final rule will also discourage new small businesses from entering
the industry.�

This
FDA rule will directly raise the price of dietary supplements for all
consumers. The FDA acknowledges this and says �We expect that the majority
of these costs will be borne by consumers of dietary supplements, who
will likely respond to the increase in prices by reducing consumption.�
Thus, the FDA is intentionally seeking to shrink the size of the dietary
supplement industry and reduce the influence of safe and effective options
to improve the dreadful trend in the health of Americans. The goal is
to leave toxic drugs as the primary health option.

Independent
analysis of this FDA rule has placed cost of compliance at 10 fold what
the FDA estimates with as many as 50% of small companies unable to comply.

The
gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the Big Pharma
payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress, have delegated their
lawmaking powers granted by the U.S. Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly
unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, who are in turn using this power to
undermine free commerce and help Big Pharma eliminate competition from
the market. This is the behavior of a government in tyranny, inviting
a revolution by the people. It is noteworthy that fascist
governments of the past have eliminated health freedom and health
options as a necessary condition to enslave and brainwash a population.
Congress has delegated its responsibility to the people to such an extent
that over half the laws in this country are now concocted by unelected
bureaucrats with vested interests.

A
Vehicle for Unprecedented Harassment

Any
company that can afford to comply with the costs and regulations of this
new FDA rule can be targeted and eliminated at will by the FDA. In essence,
the FDA is seeking to make the dietary supplement industry document every
phase of production, including expensive testing at multiple points in
the production process. Massive recordkeeping will be required, including
all customer complaints and returns for any reason! This is utterly draconian
and unnecessary interference and burden to free commerce. It is completely
Anti-American. No doubt, the FDA will impose user fees as an additional
charge so that FDA agents will have the funding required to enforce the
regulations. Under the new rule any flaw in bookkeeping can result in
a company�s products being declared adulterated, allowing the FDA to remove
them from the market even though nothing is wrong with them! A company
can then be forced out of business because they won�t be able to sell
any products to raise the money to comply. The rules are so complex and
vague that the FDA can selectively target any company it chooses, even
those attempting to comply in good faith.

The
FDA is doing this under the pretense of improved consumer safety. Consumer
safety could readily be guaranteed by simply having all companies test
their final products for purity and potency. Instead of this simple approach
the FDA has gone to the extreme of burdening the dietary supplement industry
with regulations in excess of the drug industry! Supplements are foods,
not drugs. The food industry couldn�t begin to comply with these FDA rules,
even though food contamination is far more dangerous to health than dietary
supplements.

The
FDA intends to phase this rule in over the next three years. This means
that within five years half the industry and many of the health options
individuals rely on will either be gone or significantly more expensive.

Even
more chilling is that forces within the dietary supplement industry itself
are in no small part responsible for this FDA final rule.

Trade
Groups and their Big Companies Turn on America

The
Natural Products Association (formerly the National Nutritional Food Association
� NNFA) and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have been instrumental
in forcing these drug-like rules on dietary supplements. These globalist
organizations are selling out America, destroying American jobs, undermining
the U.S. Constitution, and working in conjunction with pharmaceutical
companies to usher in Codex and the New World Order. Consumers of dietary
supplements should learn who these companies are before buying their products
and helping to inadvertently fund the destruction of health freedom in
this country.

When
DSHEA was passed in 1994 part of that law required the FDA to establish
current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs) for the dietary supplement
industry. During a period of FDA outreach to the industry the FDA was
surprised to learn that CRN and NPA were in favor of drug-like CGMPs for
the dietary supplement industry. These trade groups, working closely with
Senators Orin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), have intentionally taken
the supplement industry down a slippery slope. It is noteworthy that Hatch
takes in more money from Big Pharma than he does from dietary supplement
companies. Not only is Hatch a big supporter of the Medicare Part D drug
rip off of Americans he has saved Big Pharma billions by protecting them
from generic competition, as he is currently attempting to do with his
legislation for new biologic drugs. Hatch also has a son working for NPA
and another son that lobbies for NPA and the dietary supplement industry.
When Hatch leaves the Senate he will be first in line for a six or seven
figure Big Pharma salary.

The
CRN has been taken over by multinational drug and food companies. Key
players are the nutritional divisions of Bayer, BASF, Cargill, Monsanto,
Wyeth, and Archer Daniels Midland. Nutrition
companies that participate are in most cases owned by pharmaceutical
companies, heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies, or jockeying
for position in the international market as part of the New World Order.
Key names include Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD International, The
Vitamin Shoppe, and GNC. These companies are glad to eliminate competition
from small companies and start up ventures.

Carrying
on the general theme of Big Pharma ownership and a globalist agenda are
the companies that control the NPA. One need only look at the new NPA
China board to understand who these key players are. Jarrow Formulas,
Now Foods, GNC, and Herbalife top the list. At the end of 2006 Jarrow
and Now helped lead the charge with Senators Hatch and Harkin to burden
the dietary supplement industry with bizarre Adverse
Event Reporting legislation (AER) which insisted that dietary supplement
companies keep extensive records on any type of consumer complaint. Aspects
of this AER law are now implemented in the FDA final rule on CGMPs. Of
course, NPA was quick to offer expensive training to its members to indoctrinate
them into how to comply with the rules that NPA, working on behalf of
the FDA, just forced on its own members. Are their member companies really
this stupid? Or are they all working together? I would recommend that
any NPA member that believes itself to be a true American company that
values our constitution immediately withdraw from NPA membership � consumers
will be looking to see who
you are.

The
picture is now crystal clear for any person who cares to look. Numerous
dietary supplement companies are anti-American and actively selling out
our country and our constitution, working hand-in-glove with the FDA and
Big Pharma. The majority of such companies can be found as members of
CRN and NPA. It will be up to the American consumer to save the dietary
industry from itself and preserve their own access to safe and effective
natural health remedies. This is a relatively simple task. Quit buying
products from or quit being a distributor in these fascist organizations.
Support the small companies that are the backbone of America, otherwise
they will soon be extinct.

Update
on S.1082 Threat to Dietary Supplements

Many
of you have been following the extreme threat to dietary
supplements posed by S.1082. Similar legislation has now cleared the
House Energy and Commerce Committee and is headed for the floor of the
House in the next week or two. The House version of this bill now contains
the �food and food ingredients� language that the FDA can use to apply
drug-related risk/benefit analysis to dietary supplements and have them
removed from the market at their whim.

It is
noteworthy that both CRN and NPA have posted on their websites information
stating that S.1082 is not a threat to dietary supplements. Both organizations
are flat out wrong. They cite a colloquy
by Hatch, Harkin, Kennedy, and Enzi as their evidence. This colloquy was
a direct result of our grassroots campaign to alert the American consumer
to this major threat. In no way does this colloquy protect dietary supplements.
UNTIL THE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL IS CHANGED THE THREAT EXISTS AND IS VERY
REAL.

CRN
and NPA also tell their members that the Codex initiative to scare consumers
into thinking that dietary supplements are unsafe above miniscule amounts
and need to be regulated by international laws is also no big deal. It
is clear that CRN and NPA, again working hand-in-glove with the FDA, are
a major part of the problem and are actively engaged in forwarding the
globalist agenda of the New World Order. While pretending to represent
the dietary supplement industry these organizations are in fact shooting
the industry in the back and undermining health options for Americans.

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The
FDA is Out of Control

The
FDA is a tyrannical organization that is now emboldened and completely
out of control. It is not surprising that the FDA is seeking to eliminate
competition to Big Pharma, they have been doing that for much of the past
century. What is surprising is that they are openly stating in their final
rule a plan that directly eliminates small businesses from existence.
This fascist organization believes itself to be above
the rule of law and is actively working against America and the rights
of Americans. It must be stopped.

Richards encourages
individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their health
rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests
who profit from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources,
Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned fine-quality dietary supplement
company since 1985, he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade
nutritional formulas. www.wellnessresources.com

The
gutless cowards of Congress, a majority of whom are on the Big Pharma
payroll or will be on it once they leave Congress, have delegated their
lawmaking powers granted by the U.S. Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly
unelected bureaucrats at the FDA...